A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

In this latest installment of our “Memos to 47” series, Douglas Lute, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, looks at the Ukraine war – in particular, the steady but (in his view) too-slow pace of American ...

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

Can a state-centered ideological political agenda in Syria — instead of a violent global jihadist one — succeed after years of dictatorship?

Rear Admiral Mike Studeman sees a multi-pronged 'silent invasion' from China -- and offers thoughts on what the US should do ...

The spate of drone sightings may pose no threat -- but a Cipher Brief expert says they carry a message: the US needs better drone defenses.

Gary Grappo, a former U.S. Amabssador to Oman, offers ways the Trump administration could respond to the seismic changes to the Middle East.

AI holds huge promise for medicine. It could also be used to make a bioweapon. Experts warn there are not enough guards ...

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani reflects on the overturning of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's attempt to impose martial law.